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… years later, married Walter Allen Sheppard, a member of the first Christchurch City Council. Mrs Sheppard was active in … close friend, Jessie Mackay, paid tribute to her as “the woman whose life and personality made the deepest mark upon …
… and Otago University. After graduating B.Sc., she was the first woman to win a degree in medicine in New Zealand, …
… and hers was a voice listened to with respect. She became a woman of action whose interest lay in community … latter years of her life she became a national figure, the first modern Maori woman of more than tribal importance and a power behind the …
… Charles Dean, who lived with her, was ignorant of it. At first his name was coupled with hers in the charge, but … with equal dispatch, passed sentence of death on the first and only woman to be hanged in New Zealand. Hangings in those days …
… his sawmill, but Mrs Mander, a wise, deeply religious woman gifted with a sense of humour, schooled her daughter … her family to Whangarei in 1900 where she began work on her first and best novel, The Story of a New Zealand River . …
… in 1880, she gained her B.A. She thus became the second woman to graduate from a British university – the first being her friend and later colleague Kate Evans ne Edger. In the following year she gained an M.A., with firstclass honours in English and Latin. From 1882 to 1894 …
… won a bursary to Sydney University. In 1894 she became the first Sydney University woman to gain a B.Sc. with honours. Finding that women …
… New Zealand In 1883, after the death of Cabel Baines, her first husband, she married an engineer, Herbert James … 1896 she and Eliza Collings of Auckland were appointed the first women prison visitors in New Zealand. A sincere … Cunnington died at Sumner, Christchurch, on 30 July 1916. A woman of most forceful personality, Eveline Cunnington …
… mythology is contained in three story complexes. They are, first, the cosmo-gonic genealogies and the stories … about the origin of many natural phenomena, the creation of woman, the origin of death, and the fishing up of lands. No …
… new material, the Maori school infant room, in a brilliant first novel, whose successor is less rewarding. Ian Cross's … witty and courageous of various forms of pioneering by a woman of great wisdom. She vies with the novelists and …